donations for rent, and volunteers to help set up or clean the space (email [[ @ ]] trial-error.org)

This space is open for everyone: young/old, with or without money, male/female/both, German or from Mars, it really doesn't matter. What matters is to respect the space, and not
just use it to offload crappy or unusable things, or to find things to later sell and make a profit from.

But… WHY?

Our ‘shop’ is an example of an eco-friendly and socially

responsible place, based on the share economy, not focused on money. Constantly depending on money in order to acquire things limits our freedom and contributes to limiting other
people’s freedom as well. New STUFF, including clothes, is a burden to the earth in the cost of its production (chemical dyes pollute waterways, cotton production requires
detrimental fertilisers etc), it exploits workers (think 'sweat shops,' remember Bangladesh clothing factory fire, for eg.), and then leaves piles of waste (estimated 10 million tones of textile
waste per year in landfills...).